Nguyen Thi Hau in Ngay Nay, Issue No. 1, 30 January 1935. Known as "the very first lady to have the latest Lemur clothing on", she later became a lawyer and mayor of Da Lat (1965-1966). She was the only female mayor in Vietnam's political history at that time. Promoted, worn, assumed, Cat Tuong’s ao dai allows women to show their beauty, to exercise their sensuality, to model the world in their image. The retrograde idea of a woman as a man’s physical appendage is gradually becoming obsolete in the still Confucian society of the time. And the performance is great as the archaic mentality is heavy. Seen through the eyes of beauty, a woman is not only an obedient daughter, a faithful wife or a devoted mother, but a person